Arbeitspapier
Bread, peace and the attrition of power: Economic events and German election results
Aggregate votes for incumbent parties in post-war Germany were determined by the weighted-average growth of real per capita disposable income. Each percentage point of per capita real disposable income growth sustained over the legislative term yielded approximately two percentage points of votes in Germany. No other economic variables add value or significantly perturb the coefficients of our model. However, attrition of power reduced the vote share in election years 1961, 1994 and 1998.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Economics Department Working Paper Series ; No. 3
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
- Subject
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bread and peace model
elections
vote share
real per capita disposable income growth
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Batool, Irem
Sieg, Gernot
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
- (where)
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Braunschweig
- (when)
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2009
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:gbv:084-24452
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
Data provider
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Batool, Irem
- Sieg, Gernot
- Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Time of origin
- 2009